{"id":92378,"date":"2024-10-02T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T09:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/?p=92378"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T09:49:53","slug":"he-was-one-of-the-most-famous-stars-of-the-80s-who-surprised-the-audience-not-only-with-his-acting-but-also-with-his-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/he-was-one-of-the-most-famous-stars-of-the-80s-who-surprised-the-audience-not-only-with-his-acting-but-also-with-his-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"He was one of the most famous stars of the 80s, who surprised the audience not only with his acting but also with his dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"color:'><em><span style='\"font-size:'><b>He was one of the most famous stars of the 80s, who surprised the audience not only with his acting but also with his dancing. However, when he became a famous actor, he couldn&rsquo;t have imagined he would face the death of his son and wife. Guess who this boy turned into.\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-92394 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendstitch.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/He-was-one-of-the-most-famous-stars-of-the-80s-who-surprised-the-audience-not-only-with-his-acting-but-also-with-his-dancing.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"512\"' height='\"640\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/He-was-one-of-the-most-famous-stars-of-the-80s-who-surprised-the-audience-not-only-with-his-acting-but-also-with-his-dancing.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>He loved aviation as a child but surprised himself and others when he pursued an entirely different career.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Twenty-eight years after he married his wife, he mourned her death and talked about what she meant to him.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>After much tragedy, he is happy with his children and current life.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Growing up in New Jersey, this young man\u2019s father was a semi-professional football player who owned a tire shop. However, the young man was not interested in either as a potential career.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Instead, he thought he might work at the airport as a baggage handler or ticket salesman, as he had taken an interest in the industry when his high school offered an aviation class. Yet he also didn\u2019t end up working in aviation.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-92395 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendstitch.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/AFT-243.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"936\"' height='\"450\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AFT-243.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Now, he admits that he has always been impatient, saying he was impatient as a child and teenager and is still impatient as an adult. He shared:\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cI was the kind of guy who said, \u2018If I hit 25 and I\u2019m not making a mark in this business, tell me to do something else.\u2019\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Instead of following in his father\u2019s footsteps or pursuing his love for aviation, which started at age 15, the young man decided to follow in his mother\u2019s footsteps and try to act.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>John Travolta Mourned Kelly Preston<br>\n<span style='\"font-size:'>The young man in question is John Travolta, who burst onto the Hollywood scene at just 18 years old, starring in many famous titles throughout his life like \u201cGrease,\u201d \u201cLook Who\u2019s Talking,\u201d and \u201cSaturday Night Fever.\u201d\n<p><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' wp-image-92397 size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendstitch.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/a862284d5f9d551edaf912de2fdc19b7438b940efa9499aaed1e561c9431ead1.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1312\"' height='\"2048\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a862284d5f9d551edaf912de2fdc19b7438b940efa9499aaed1e561c9431ead1.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p><span style='\"font-size:'>During his career, he married Kelly Preston, a fellow actor he met during a screen test for a production called \u201cThe Experts.\u201d Preston was married then but revealed that she was with the wrong person.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Travolta and Preston met in 1989; by 1991, Travolta had asked for Preston\u2019s hand in marriage. The couple married nine months after Travolta proposed and lived a beautiful life together for 28 years.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Sadly, their love story ended in 2020 when Preston died of breast cancer. Travolta was devastated by the loss and shared some words of wisdom with fans, advising:\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cThe most important thing you can do to help another when they are in mourning is allow them to live it and not complicate it with yours.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>He said he felt he was held down by everyone else\u2019s sadness about his wife\u2019s passing and thought it was essential to go somewhere where you could quietly mourn when you were grieving.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Now, Travolta focuses on improving his children\u2019s lives and being there as much as possible as they navigate a world without their mother. He is a devoted father.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>What Is Travolta\u2019s Life Like Now?<br>\n<span style='\"font-size:'>This year, Travolta celebrated Father\u2019s Day with his children two years after his wife passed away. He took to Facebook to share a photo of himself sitting with his daughter and son on a couch as their dog sat on his lap. He then wished all the \u201cdedicated fathers\u201d a Happy Father\u2019s Day.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-92396 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendstitch.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/AFT-245.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"926\"' height='\"458\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AFT-245.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Many fans flooded the comments with love and support for him, telling him what a wonderful father he is and how great it is to see him with his children.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Travolta and Preston built a beautiful family but experienced a significant loss when their son died on a family holiday in the Bahamas. However, Travolta does not allow the sadness he has felt in his life to detract from being a wonderful father to his two children now.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was one of the most famous stars of the 80s, who surprised the audience not only with his acting but also with his dancing. However, when he became a famous actor, he couldn&rsquo;t have imagined he would face the death of his son and wife. Guess who this boy turned into. 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